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UN calls US response to tsunami disaster "stingy"
CNN Inside Politics
| December 27, 2004
| CNN
Posted on 12/27/2004 2:04:39 PM PST by ejdrapes
I was watching CNN's Inside Politics today (no transcript up yet) and they had a panel on - someone from the Washington Post, LA Times (Ron Brownstein) and Time magazine (Karen Tumulty). They were discussing our response to the disaster and the host of the program mentioned that the UN called our response "stingy". Then the panel went on to talk about how we "fumbled" this and were basically AWOL for one day. This just really made my blood boil. What have other countries done? The Brits say over 10,000 of their citizens were on holiday in that area. It's a large tourist area for Europeans. Where's the criticism of the EU and its member nations? And do we really have to play politics at a time like this?
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: allidiotsrbelongtoun; bitinghandthatfeeds; blameamerica; brownstain; humanitarianrelief; janegeland; liberals; rotinhellkofi; stlldontgetit; sumatraquake; troll; unitedingrates; unitednothing; unmitigatedgall
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To: OXENinFLA
I think this guy has a lot of hostility stemming from his first name. And as far as giving a flying rip about what the UN thinks on this or any issue.......pffft!
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posted on
12/28/2004 5:40:14 AM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(Jimmy Carter: Minutiae expert.)
To: Peach
Is there anyone in the U.S., besides Clinton perhaps, who doesn't hate the UN?yeah, all of the UN diplomats that are here and are leaching off us....
};o)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Maybe Coffee and son could kick in some of their "Oil for Food" loot. oil for food for sex for cash for job for socialist for dictator for liberal for Clinton for UN for Cherac for ...
283
posted on
12/28/2004 5:41:14 AM PST
by
alrea
(Help wanted: Dir. of Homeland Security - State of New Jersey. Must be willing performer & Democrat)
To: Peach
Good morning. If the UN is up in arms, we must be doing something right.
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posted on
12/28/2004 5:42:00 AM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(Jimmy Carter: Minutiae expert.)
To: fish hawk
I have to wonder how many of these shrill UN bottom feeders profitted from the oil-for-food ripoff? How many of these scaberous UN FLAKS fattened their Swiss bank accounts with the fraudulent UN BRIBERY SCHEMES? And now they say the U.S. taxpayer has to squeeze out "his fair share" to pay the vig for the Muslim countries devastated by Nature/Providence?
Remember, more money to the UN trough pays for the upkeep on Kofi Anan's Lake Geneva Chalet...
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posted on
12/28/2004 5:42:30 AM PST
by
Thommas
(20 year air traffic controller)
To: prairiebreeze
Good morning. Exactly. I'm steamed.
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posted on
12/28/2004 5:44:05 AM PST
by
Peach
To: ejdrapes
This just really made my blood boil. What have other countries done? As of now, the Japanese have committed to or done:
- Today (December 28th) the Foreign Ministry announced $30 million direct support for disaster relief. They have dispatched a medical team and a survey team, along with $500,000 in-kind contribution of medical gear. They are providing $1.5 million directly to Indonesia, $1 million to Sri Lanka, and $500,000 to the Maldives. In addition to this money, 2,400 tons of rice that Japan had contributed to the World Food Program will be redirected to the stricken area.
- Also committed about $9 million to JPF (Japan Platform), their humanitarian relief organization. This appears to be their second largest contribution to JPF, the largest being twice that made in March 2004. (By the by, Japan also announced another $91 million for Iraq today in humanitarian aid.)
- Japan is also consulting on providing helicopters for search and rescue; they happen to have some vessels in the vicinity helping with the war on terror, and may be able to provide the Thai government with some assistance. (Or may not, I am not sure that the capabilities are a good match.)
- By further happenstance, Japan will host a conference on disaster reduction in January, and have suggested focusing on warning systems, looking specifically on what to do in the Indian Ocean.
To: ejdrapes
IOW, $15 million is not enough to properly skim under-table kick-backs from.
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posted on
12/28/2004 5:50:19 AM PST
by
azhenfud
("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
To: Peach
Contemptible. Despicabe. I hope the US Pub Senators will stand firm with cutting some funding to the UN. May be too much to hope for though, knowing their weak spines and all...
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posted on
12/28/2004 5:54:04 AM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(Jimmy Carter: Minutiae expert.)
To: Peach
Despicabe = despicable
Must get that coffee...
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posted on
12/28/2004 5:55:07 AM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(Jimmy Carter: Minutiae expert.)
To: ejdrapes
The countries involved in the Oil for Food scandle should take some of those profits and help these people. As we all know, the UN is our friend.
I feel terrible for the poor people who were affected by this disaster. My prayers are with them.
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posted on
12/28/2004 5:58:04 AM PST
by
Pedrobud
(Get out of the UN)
To: musical_airman
In other news, the US calls the UN response to the War on Terror "virtually nonexistent"How can you say that!?!?!?! Please!!! The UN is know to activelysupport, aid and abet terrorists!
Mark
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posted on
12/28/2004 5:58:06 AM PST
by
MarkL
(That which does not kill me, has made the last mistake it will ever make!)
To: ejdrapes
To: Still Thinking
Well, then, why doesn't the UN just send some of their own money. Oh, that's right, I forgot, never mind...Well stated. Criminal, bureaucratic, collectivist/socialist parasites attacking producers of something of value...of wealth.
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posted on
12/28/2004 6:06:44 AM PST
by
PGalt
To: NonValueAdded
Lurkers: This is the only message....
US out of the UN;
UN out of the US !!!
295
posted on
12/28/2004 6:06:47 AM PST
by
Robert Drobot
(God, family, country. All else is meaningless.)
To: prairiebreeze
UN WEBCAST I just watched it and he DOES say "stingy" THREE TIMES.
Fast forward to the 40min mark.
To: Robert Drobot
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posted on
12/28/2004 6:09:43 AM PST
by
PGalt
To: MarkL
How can you say that!?!?!?! Please!!! The UN is know to activelysupport, aid and abet terrorists!The UN restrictions were sooooo harsh that the 911 terrorists just happened to fly right past the UN building, probably waving as they flew by.
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posted on
12/28/2004 6:13:44 AM PST
by
PGalt
To: ejdrapes
We went to Baghdad. Why can't we go to New York and pull Kofi out of his snake hole?
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posted on
12/28/2004 6:16:16 AM PST
by
PGalt
(his head should be on a spike)
To: ejdrapes
"Ah, but good Christians would never swear, would they"
Paul tells us to "refrain from strong language..." He didn't say it was absolutely forbidden to use it even when appropriate.
When Christ accused the priests of being "whited sepuchres full of dead men's bones and full of corruption", that was considered one of the worst swear terms a man could utter to another, the equivalent of being told one was Full Of S----!
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